She demanded of her future husband: “I only ask one thing, that should my people need me, you would help me to do my duty by them.”
And they and her mother did need her, so she went back… and was put under house arrest because of her political activism.
She was offered her freedom, if she left… But she is a Diplomatic Contender, and
“… Contending entails competition. Thus to contend with another’s work one must hold one’s ground, hang onto one’s position, stick to one’s intention, tend to one’s business, stay the course, in a word, betenacious. It is not so much that one is bent on overtaking or outdoing others, as it is having one’s way. Contenders will have their way if at all possible.” Personology, page 77.
“You might as well live a lot, really hard, and not give a shit, because you can always walk through that door. So I started to live as if I could die any day.” [Our emphasis, not hers]
But she couldn’t.
She couldn’t liveas if she had no purpose. It wasn’t in her nature.
So she had started her search, not knowing why or how, or even where. She didn’t even know that she was searching.
“I’m a sworn enemy of the convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts”
Hedwig Kiesler, was declared the “most beautiful women in the world,” but she quickly got bored of the sobriquet. She did not play the Hollywood game. She spent many of her evenings creating. But few would know, what she was creating for it was classified as secret for 40 years.
“Any girl can be glamorous — all you have to do is stand still and look stupid”
Six different husbands. All married her for different reasons. But not any like her father. He loved his daughter for her intelligence, not for her beauty. It was he, who encouraged her to ask how things work, which gave her a supreme self confidence even by the tender age of 15. “I must make my own decisions. Mould my own character, think my own thoughts.”
No ashes, no coal can burn with such glow. As a secretive love of which no one must know.
She was.
But, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…” [Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities]
She began her dark journey into light at the age of seventeen.
In that darkness, he had beaten her ‘on her bare buttocks’ in a ‘special room’ away from the family. In the light, she eventually confessed that she had felt sexual excitement when her father beat her. Her mother had raised her ‘in complete sexual ignorance.’
Suffering – both physical and emotional – with love.
Peter Gene Hernandez a.k.a Bruno Mars is a Filipino-American singer and songwriter who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii into a family of musicians. Mars began making music at a young age, and after graduating high-school moved to LA to pursue a career in music. A talented producer with a great voice and a charming smile, Mars drew from a wide variety of styles and influences, and quickly found his place in the music industry. Using his childhood nickname Bruno, Hernandez added Mars because “a lot of girls say that I’m out of this world, so I was like I guess I’m from Mars.” Mars’ debut albumDoo Wops and Hooliganswas released this October and gave him 6 grammy nominations. The album is riddled with altruism, romance, and intense emotional experiences. A hopeless romantic, highly in-touch with his feelings, extremely expressive, and fiercely independentBruno Mars is undoubtedly a Champion Idealist. Indeed Bruno exudes a kind of “spontaneous personal authenticity”, and communicates such through his unique musical style. Bruno is characteristically positive in his outlook, and is surprised when people or events do not turn out as anticipated, as evidenced by his somewhat somber ‘trophy song’Grenade. Despite seemingly having his heart broken something tells me Bruno is gonna be ok:
Often their [Champions’] confidence in the innate goodness of life and human nature is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Please Understand Me II, p. 156
“On the back of the slip was written ‘Read 5.25.34’ and the signature of my father. The file — indeed the whole ‘case’ — gave me a heavy sinking feeling. I kept leafing through the documents trying to understand. Shouldn’t there have been some kind of logic to these stories? Did the Chekists’ machinery really so senselessly gobble up people? Perhaps my life would have taken a different turn if been able to see my father’s file earlier. If I could have been convinced without a doubt of what ordinary, banal horror our industry, our powerful Soviet reality was steeped in.”
“My father never spoke about any of this with me. He blanked this piece of his life out of his memory as if it had never existed. It is forbidden to speak of this subject in our family.”
“I was only three years old at the time of my father’s arrest, but I remember to this day all the horror and fear. One night people came into our barracks room. I remember my mother shouting and crying. I woke up and also began to cry. I was crying not because my father was going away (I was still too young to “understand” what was happening to him). I was crying because I saw my mother and saw how frightened she was. Her fear and her tears were transferred to me. My father was taken away, and my mother threw herself at me, hugging me until I calmed down and fell asleep.” Continue reading A Child's Memory→
The 2011 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show aired on CBS last night and WOW what quality television programming. Like seriously. The $12 million ‘marketing marvel’ is aired in more than 180 countries and features the worlds top models (36) wearing intimate apparel. The show featured hard-hitting musical performances from Jay-Z and Kanye West, Maroon 5, and Nicki Minaj. “It’s one giant PR stunt” that was held in New York, and helps Victoria’s Secret “put our [their] brand in front of millions of people around the world during the crucial holiday period.” And it works, as Victoria’s Secret raked in $5.5 billion in net sales last year. Australian model and new motherMiranda Kerr sported the most expensive digs in the form of a $2.5 million Fantasy Treasure Bra—designed by London Jewelers and embellished with nearly 3,400 stones including 142 carats of diamond. As is the new trend in these Victoria’s Secret Fashion Shows, a recent mother was given the honor of wearing the coveted Fantasy Bra, last year being Adriana Lima. Indeed most of the lingerie giant‘s top models are now mothers including Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio. With all that ridiculously good television going on it was hard to catch the fact that there were also musical performances. Were there? I had no idea. Since analyzing the temperament of models wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense let’s take a look at burgeoning dynamic duoJay-Z and Kanye West.
Shawn Corey Carter was born into poverty on the streets of Brooklyn December 4, 1969. Today his net worth is estimated at over 450$ million. An extremely talented rapper and musician, HOVA has 11 number one records, being beat out only by The Beatles. Music however, is definitely not Carter’s only talent. Indeed Carter is a very successful and renowned entrepreneur: he was President/CEO of Def Jam Records for several years, he has founded multiple corporations including Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear, finally he is co-owner of a variety of organizations including the 40/40 Club and the New Jersey Nets. Whether it be music, fashion, food, or just cold hard business; Jigga clearly knows how to get sh*t done. A self-admitted former crack dealer, Shawn Carter clearly will use any means or ‘tools’ necessary to be successful. A brilliant Crafter Artisan from the streets, Carter knows that the most important things in life are ‘a gift and a curse’.
Kanye Omari West was born June 08, 1977 in Atlanta Georgia. The Chi-town native is characterized by his flamboyantly loud personality, outrageous fashion sense, and skills as a music producer. Indeed it was Kanye’s beat-making prowess that got his foot in the industry door. However once his foot was in the door, his mouth did the rest. The rapper’s flashy personality may come across as a bit egotistical, but also made him a powerful media darling, and helped propel his career to what it is today. Kanye’s uncensored attitude has indeed gotten him in trouble: when he claimed that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” or his infamous mic-snatching incident with Taylor Swift. In fact if at any point during the day you want to hear exactly what Kanye West is thinking about, you can check out his highly utilized twitter account, or even his website. Although the guy may come off as a bit brazen or overconfident: at the end of the day Kanye West, a blazing Performer Artisan, simply wants to entertain his audience.
Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.
And she was a Character — a very interesting, and complex character.
Having entered the science community as a woman, when men still dominated science, and being charmed by a huge scientific ego, Carl, she luckily had to explore the backwaters of evolutionary biology at the time, bacteria, not getting much support from him or her male contemporaries. Of course, like all good science, that estuary of knowledge contained biological riches totally ignored by well established conventional scientific community. Like Darwin before, she was sui generis: a driven, feisty, no holds barred, idea brawler — an intellectual maverick — by necessity and choice. Initially ignored, she generated a fair amount of hostility from the conventional scientific community when they were challenged.
And intellectual mavericks, with persistence, are the only type to challenge the major ideas of conventional science, and win — somewhat.
Kourtney and Kim Take New York Season 2 premiered last night and oh how sweet it is. The Kardashian Family (especially Kim) will be looking for ALL SORTS of PR after meeting with considerable public backlash regarding Kim’s divorce to obscure athlete and general idiot Kris Humphries. The family of course has since launched a damage-control campaign, the cornerstone of which will be Kourtney and Kim take New York. According to sources the show will be heavily portraying Kris (Humphries) as a villain, as Kris (Jenner) is an executive producer of the show itself and therefore can doctor it’s content however she wants. God forbid after making 18 million dollars off of the wedding Kim couldn’t even suffer through more than 72 days of a bad marriage. Whereas most people suffer through a bad marriage their entire lives. For free. If someone offered you 18 million to marry an idiot would you do it? Of course you would. Let’s be honest. All you have to do is ignore everything he/she says. With 18 million you could even buy them a separate house and you wouldn’t even have to ever say a single word to them. After typing Kim as a Promoter and being presented with some pretty solid arguments to the contrary let’s take a closer and more in-depth look at Kim Kardashian and her dear and beloved sister Kourtney Kardashian.
Kimberly Noel Kardashian was born October 21 1980 the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian and his wife Kris Kardashian. Her father was of Armenian descent, her mother Dutch-Scottish. Kim led a pretty standard young Los Angeles socialite life until tragedy struck and her father died of esophageal cancer in 2003 at the age of 59. Kim is a self-described obsessive-compulsive neat freak and is actually very shy and timid in large groups. While much of her behavior comes off as being a Promoter, this is no doubt through the guidance of her overbearing and strong-willedPromoter ArtisanmotherKris Jenner. Indeed Kim has essentially done exactly what she has been told, in order for Kris to create an ’empire’ with. Kimcares deeply about her family, and takes great pride in protecting the health and welfare of those she cares about. Self-admittedly uptight, extremely hard-working, actually quite shy, and very loving of her family Kim Kardashian is undoubtedly a Protector Guardian.
Kourtney Mary Kardashian was born of the same ilk of her dear sister a year earlier. The oldest of the Kardashian children, Kourtney was the one who kept them all in line. Indeed Kourtney is the most serious of all the Kardashian kids, and can sometimes seem cold and unforgiving. Earnest, attentive, dedicated, and highly strict and thorough, Kourtney Kardashian is undoubtedly an Inspector Guardian. Certainly Kourtney can seem like a downright b*tch sometimes, but let’s not hold it against her.
Artisan parents have little or no difficulty rearing Guardian children. They enjoy encouraging their Guardian children to get into all sorts of sports and arts and adventures, hoping to help loosen them up and show them that life is for living here and now. With such modeling on how to have fun Guardian children can overcome their natural caution and seriousness, and can thrive both at home and school. There is a danger that highly aggressive Artisan parents can communicate dissatisfaction with their Guardian child’s over concerned attitude, letting it be known that they aren’t happy with a goody-goody child of either gender—teasing them about being a mama’s boy or a little pris. If SP parents expect (or demand) boldness and impetuosity from their SJ children, they will only frighten or inhibit them, and teach them they are a failure. Fortunately, it is unusual for both parents to be Artisans, and quite usual for the other parent to be a Guardian. So the Guardian child often has the best of both worlds: someone to show the way to joy, and someone to show the way of duty. Please Understand Me II, p. 277
